Understanding Multi-Source Feedback

What MSF is

Multi-source feedback gathers perspectives from different people who have had an opportunity to observe your professional practice.

Elaryvo’s MSF is an original professional-development tool. It is not an official GMC, RCPCH, NPMCN, WACP or WACS form unless a pathway expressly recognises it.

The Elaryvo sequence

Self-assess. Choose respondents. Collect feedback. Compare. Reflect. Develop.

1. Complete a short self-assessment of four core areas before invitations are created.
2. Choose people from different professional roles who have actually observed your work.
3. Respondents comment only on what they have had opportunity to see. Their names do not appear on the report.
4. Compare how you saw yourself with the themes that emerge.
5. Write a post-feedback reflection in your own words.
6. Turn development points into actions or a PDP item.

Four core areas

Professionalism & trust. Communication & relationships. Teamwork, leadership & safety. Knowledge, skills & professional development.

These are Elaryvo’s core MSF areas. They are not labelled as GMC domains. Where you have a UK pathway, related Good medical practice domains can be shown separately.

MSF is not the same as…

Single colleague feedback is one named professional view.

Multi-team feedback is a subtype: people in different professional groups around a shared area of practice.

A supervisor assessment is a structured judgement, often by someone who knows your work over time.

A workplace-based assessment (Mini-CEX, CBD, DOPS) observes a specific activity.

360 feedback is a name some programmes use; Elaryvo’s tool is Multi-source feedback.

If your College has no electronic MSF

You can still use Elaryvo MSF as independent professional development. Map the completed feedback separately to NPMCN, WACP, WACS or another pathway where relevant. Potentially relevant is not the same as requirement completed.